Staten Island Museum: 2013 Cicada Movie Festival
63rd Annual Fence Show & Musical Chairs Open Air Music Festival
Annual Island-wide Butterfly Count
Mid-Week Bird Walk: Mount Loretto Unique Area
Magicicada Citizen Science Workshop
Cicada Mania Continues: Buck’s Hollow
Jr. Science Club: Catapults
Magicicada Citizen Science Workshop
Ecology Walk: The Great Cicada Walk!
NatureFest 2013
Mid-Week Bird Walk: Buck’s Hollow
Magicicada Citizen Science Workshop
The Ultimate Science Street Fair
A Six-legged S*X Party!
Mid-Week Bird Walk: West Shore Wetlands Tour
Mid-Week Bird Walk: Great Kills Park
Magicicada Citizen Science Workshop
Jr. Science Club: The Diversity of Reptiles
Family Bird Day at Clove Lakes Park
Mid-Week Bird Walk: Mt. Loretto Unique Area
Side of Ferry
Toned silver gelatin photographic print
Robert Welsh
Ecology Walk: Mother’s Day Walk
Big Day Bird Count
Mid-Week Bird Walk: Clove Lakes Park
Staten Island in Photographs: Images from the History Archives and Library of Staten Island Museum
Scholars refer to the physical objects that a society produces as elements of its material culture. They consider those objects of material culture intended to serve the purpose of visual communication as components of that society’s visual culture. Photographs are such artifacts.
The photographic images and objects in this selection, from the collection of the Staten Island Museum, thus constitute a cross-section of Staten Island’s material culture and its visual culture as well.
With Staten Island now the fastest-growing borough in New York City, and the fastest-growing county in New York State, the island’s past, as recorded in these pictures, has never been more relevant or timely.
- A.D. Coleman
Staten Island in Photographs: Images from the History Archives and Library of Staten Island Museum
Photography Gallery Talk: New York as Subject
Mid-Week Bird Walk: Wolfe’s Pond Park/Lemon Creek
Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble Concert
Limited Edition Reproductions
Now available to the public, the Staten Island Museum offers an exceptional selection of Limited Edition Archival Quality Reproductions selected from the Museum’s Art and History collections.
Please call 718.727.1135 for more information or to place your order.
New York Bay from Staten Island, Near the Lighthouse
8 1/2" x 11" Reproduction paper size
Line engraving drawn by "W. Heine," (Peter Bernard William Heine, 1872 - 1885) 1850, and engraved by John Popple. Published in the Coronal and Young Ladies Remembrancer, 1853. Published for Herman Meyer, No. 164 William Street, New York. This print was also published in 1855 in Dana’s The United States Illustrated.
This view was taken from a point in New York Bay near South Beach. It depicts, from left to right: the southern beach of the present Fort Wadsworth grounds; men caulking their boats near a Fort Lafayette are seen at the right of the engraving.
Price: $65.
The New Grounds of the Metropolitan Base-Ball Club on Staten Island
13" x 19" Reproduction paper size
Drawn by Schell and Hogan. Woodcut from Harper's Weekly, May 15, 1886.
The grounds of the club were on the St. George flats
Price: $100.
New York - Afternoon Exercise of Members of the Ladies' Club for Outdoor Sports at Camp Washington, Staten Island
13" x 19" Reproduction paper size
A large woodcut. From Leslie's Weekly, September 8. 1877.
Price: $100.
New York - The First National Lawn-Tennis Tournament, New Brighton, Staten Island
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13" x 19" Reproduction paper size
Woodcut. From Leslie’s Weekly, September 18, 1880. Drawn by H.A. Ogden. The tournament was held September 1, at Camp Washington, the site of the present Staten Island Ferry parking lot. New York Bay is in the background.
Price: $100.
New Brighton From New York Bay
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8 1/2" x 11" Reproduction paper size
Line engraving. Upon the front piece to Volume 1, July 1837, of the Richmond County Mirror. From a painting by John Gadsby Chapman, NA (1808-1889), engraved by John A. Rolph (1799-1862). The engraving was reprinted with the title NEW BRIGHTON IN THE VINCINTY OF NEW YORK, in The Rover, 1844. This is a much more accurate view of the town than the idealized engraving in the Description of New Brighton pamphlet. The so-called Greek temple houses along Richmond Terrace, the Pavilion Hotel, the ferry dock at the foot of York Avenue, and the single building of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor are easily recognized. Only a few residences can be seen upon Brighton Heights.
Price: $65.
Staten Island
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8 1/2" x 11" Reproduction paper size
"Drawn from Nature. Aug d. Kunstanst D. Bibl. in Hildbhsn…d. Verleger.”
Line engraving “Pub. For Hermann J. Meyer 164 William Street, N.Y. Drawn for the Proprietor Herrmann J. Meyer. Copyright according to Act of Congress.” Ahrens, Engraver. In: United States Illustrated, ca. 1855. This work was published by a person named Dana. Alternate title: STAATEN ISLAND BEI NEW YORK.
The present Fort Hill Circle, at that time the driveway of the M. Morgan residence, forms the foreground of the engraving. The picture shows the Saint Nicholas Hospital in the Quarantine establishment, a few buildings and the Dutch Reforms Church located in Tompkinsville, the Pavilion, Mount Tompkins on Pavilion Hill, New York Bay, the Narrows, Fort Richmond, Clifton, and the old Seamen’s Retreat building.
Price: $65.
Sunset
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13" x 19" Reproduction paper size
Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836 - 1892)
Watercolor on paper, 1870
Gift of Lee Anderson, A1956.21.2
From the Collection of the Staten Island Museum
Price: $75.
Scene in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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13" x 19" Reproduction paper size
Charles Frederick Schabelitz (1844 - 1905)
Watercolor on paper, Late 19th Century
Gift of the Estate of Walter C. Schabelitz, A1960.17.4
From the Collection of the Staten Island Museum
Price: $75.
Landscape
13" x 19" Reproduction paper size
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606 - 1680)
Pen and ink on paper, 17th Century
Gift of Norbert Schimmel, A1958.66.2
From the Collection of the Staten Island Museum
Price: $75.
A Canal with a Large Boat and Bridge
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8 1/2" x 11" Reproduction paper size
Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1606 - 1669)
Etching on paper, 1650
Gift of Henry Schnakenberg in Memory of Daniel Schnakenberg, A1959.6.13
From the Collection of the Staten Island Museum.
Price: $65.
History Talk & Book Signing
Jr. Science Club: Chemical Concoctions from the Kitchen
Poem in Your Pocket Day!
Cicadas to soon come alive on the east coast
The Cicada-Obsessed Prepare to Scratch a 17-Year Itch
Mid-Week Bird Walk: Clove Lakes Park
Visitor Testimonials
"Another secret”
The SI Museum gets some tourist traffic, but i think way too many Staten Islanders have yet to discover it. They have some interesting displays and the staff works incredibly hard to keep things fresh & interesting.
- Trip Advisor Review, April 12, 2013
“Low key and pleasant”
I don't tend to think of any part of NYC as low key and relaxing, but that is what this little museum is! I took the ferry and spotted the museum easily from just outside the terminal. The staff was welcoming, and the several small exhibits were interesting. Don't miss the glow in the dark rocks!
- Trip Advisor Review, March 29, 2013
“Very informative museum. Lovely staff.”
My wife and I stepped off of the Staten Island ferry and thought that we had been transported to a quiet English country town. Was this still New York? The small museum was very informative. The staff even told us to come back after noon as it would then be free! How honest! We learned about the history of the Island, the dreaded invasion of cicadas and the history of the ferry… I would recommend a visit here.
- Trip Advisor Review, March 26, 2013
“Step off the ferry and see Staten Island!”
In several visits to NYC we have taken the ferry to get great view of the NY skyline and the Statue of Liberty. Until recently, we never explored Staten Island before returning to Manhattan.
The Staten Island museum was just $3 a person [As of January 1, 2013 the recommended regular admission is $5] and was an interesting diversion. There are several different collections in the museum, and we particularly enjoyed seeing the artifacts detailing the history of the Ferry. The museum takes an hour or so to tour and is a great way to something more than Manhattan.
The info in the museum made us want to see more of Staten Island when we visit NYC another time. Give it a try!
- Trip Advisor Review, October 26, 2012
This is a small and rather quirky museum, but it's worth visiting once — and the best aspect is actually their walking tours, which transpire in many different & interesting (and sometimes really lovely) sections of Staten Island.
-Susan L.
Yelp Review, April 19, 2011
A strange and offbeat little museum that I stumbled into the other day out of a morbid curiousity to see the butterflies carcasses mounted on the walls.The museum itself is tiny but they have an extensive collection of ferries past and mounted butterflies and bugs on the walls. Personally I'm not that big on seeing dead bugs on the walls but to each his own.
In the back they also have the glow in the dark rocks which I rather liked and stuffed seagulls from different parts of the island. Seriously, this place is like a taxidermists dream come true.The second floor is leaves. I don't know why but if you like leaves or just want some privacy this place is for you.
FYI: for those looking to save a buck, the sign at the front said admission is free on Tuesday and Fridays from 12-2pm.
-Alma Z
Yelp Review, January 13, 2009
I love this place- the quintessential little museum with jars of weird animals and cases of insects...history of the ferry...a cool microscope to see all kinds of crystals and rocks super up close. Its kind of like a tini-tiny natural history museum...and they are great about renting the place for neighborhood and community meetings.
-Mary S.
Yelp Review, March 28, 2008
Check out a visitor's blog...Old School/New School Mom September 28, 2010
Visitor Tesitmonials
Visitor Testimonials
Visitor Testimonials
Ecology Walk: Fields are springing to life!
Springtime Wildflower Walk
Book Talk & Signing - Nature Wars
Purple Martins: Tidy Up the Colony
Mid-Week Bird Walk: Conference House Park
Mad Science!
Looking & Drawing Closely: Microorganisms!
Curator’s Talk: Cicadas in Far Eastern Art
Outdoor Adventures! Wolfe’s Pond Park
Old Space to New Home - The Staten Island Museum Goes ‘Green’
Colors in Nature
Adopt-A-Treasure
Coming soon.
Outdoor Adventures! Clove Lakes Park
Mid-Week Bird Walk: William T Davis Wildlife Refuge
All Aboard: Ferry Tour
Looking & Drawing Closely: Mammals
Staten Island Environmental Calendar
Hosted and maintained by the Staten Island Museum for environmental programming all over Staten Island.
